Rajiv Malhotra

Rajiv Malhotra is an internationally known researcher, writer, speaker and public intellectual on current affairs as they relate to civilizations, cross-cultural encounters, spirituality and science. He studied physics and computer science, and served in multiple careers including: software development executive, Fortune 100 senior corporate executive, strategic consultant, and successful entrepreneur in the information technology and media industries. At the peak of his career when he owned 20 companies in several countries, he took early retirement at age 44 to pursue philanthropy, research and public service. He established Infinity Foundation for this purpose in 1994. Rajiv has conducted original research in a variety of fields and has influenced many other thinkers in India and the West. He has disrupted the mainstream thought process among academic and non-academic intellectuals alike, by providing fresh provocative positions on Dharma and on India. Some of the focal points of his work are: Interpretation of Dharma for the current times; comparative religion, globalization, and India’s contributions to the world. He has authored hundreds of articles, provided strategic guidance to numerous organizations and has over 800 video lectures available online. His following game-changing books are a good resource to understand him deeper:

1. Academic Hinduphobia

2. The Battle For Sanskrit: “Is Sanskrit political or sacred, oppressive or liberating, dead or alive?

3. Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism

4. Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines

5. Indra’s Net: Defending Hinduism’s Philosophical Unity

Kapil Kapoor

Dr. Kapil Kapoor is an Indian scholar of linguistics and literature and an authority on Indian intellectual traditions. He is former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and served as a professor at the Centre for Linguistics and English, and Concurrent Professor at the Centre for Sanskrit Studies there before retiring in 2005. He is Editor-in-Chief of the 11 Volume Encyclopedia of Hinduism published by Rupa & Co. in 2012.

Kapil Kapoor has been teaching for fifty-two years; 41 scholars worked for PhD and 36 for M.Phil. under him. He was Dean of the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, JNU, from 1996–1999 and Rector (Pro-Vice-Chancellor) of the University from 1999–2002. In 2018, he was appointed chairperson of Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) at Shimla. Previously, he was Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya at Wardha.

His teaching and research areas include literary and linguistic theories both Indian and Western, the philosophy of language, nineteenth century British life, literature and thought and Indian intellectual traditions. He has written and lectured extensively on these themes. He retired from JNU in 2005.

Publications

1 – Semantic Structure and the Verb: A Propositional Analysis

2 – Grading Criteria for Neo-Literate Materials

3 – English in India

4 – Language, Linguistics and Literature: The Indian Perspective

5 – South-Asian Love Poetry

6 – Canonical Texts of English Literary Criticism with Selections from Classical Poeticians

7 – Literary Theory: Indian Conceptual Framework

8 – Dimensions of Panini Grammar

9 – Text and Interpretation: The Indian Tradition

10 – Indian Knowledge Systems

11 – Sanskrit Studies. Vol.1.

12 – Rati Bhakti: Bharat Ki Katha Parampara Me.

13 – Encyclopedia of Hinduism Vols. 1–11, Editor-in-Chief

Bharat Gupt

Bharat Gupt, a former Associate Professor in English at the College of Vocational Studies of the University of Delhi, is an Indian classicist, theatre theorist, sitar and surbahar player, musicologist, cultural analyst, and newspaper columnist. His Doctoral Dissertation was titled “A Comparison of Greek and Indian Dramatic Theories as Given in the Poetics and the Natyasastra”. He speaks Sanskrit, Hindi, English and Greek. Trained both in modern European and traditional Indian educational systems, he has worked in classical studies, theatre, music, culture and media studies and researched as Senior Fellow of the Onassis Foundation in Greece on revival of ancient Greek theatre. Much of his writing is devoted to classical Indian and Greek theatre, comparing their similarities and differences and exploring the possibilities of common Indo-European origins. He is an active promoter of the re-introduction of artistic education and Sanskrit language in the Indian education system.

Publications

1 – Dramatic Concepts: Greek and Indian (1994) Literary Criticism and Theory (Greek)
2 – India: A Cultural Decline or Revival?

Purabi Roy

Dr. Purabi Roy, retired Professor of Jadavpur University, India and ex. visiting Professor of Moscow State University and St.Petersburg University, Russian Federation is the scholar who is leading scholar in India and the world who is searching for the truth about Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s mysterious death. She was the backbone of the Mukherjee Commission. As a research Professor of the Asiatic Society, she published volumes on Russo-Indian Relations XIX Cent, Indo-Russian Relations XX Cent. Part-I and Part-II. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Commemoration Vol. of Scottish Church College. She is the author of many articles and a great book on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

Publications

1 – The Search for Netaji: New Findings

Shrikant Talageri

Shrikant G. Talageri is a self-taught scholar of history, culture and linguistics. He knows more than 20 languages and is an expert of comparative linguistics. Along with history, philosophy, culture and linguistics he is also interested in music, wildlife and comparative religion.

Shri Talageri was born and brought up in Mumbai. His literary sense was highly developed while he was studying in school and he used to write stories. When he was first asked to recite one of his stories in his childhood, he was praised but encouraged to write it in his mother-tongue – Konkani.

Shri Talageri accepted the challenge but writing in Konkani made him aware of the many linguistic problems involved, and he developed a strong interest in linguistics (learning different alphabets, reading about the languages of the world, etc) He even invented an alphabet for Konkani.

This is when he came up against the Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) and found it extremely dubious. The kinship between the languages spoken by most Indians and by most Europeans, jointly known as the Indo-European (IE) language family, is usually explained through the Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT). He has made a special study of the Konkani language, his mother tongue. He has devoted several years, and much study, to the theory of an Aryan invasion of India, debunking it without an iota of doubt. He has also interpreted the Vedas with the help of the internal chronology of Rig Vedic Rishis within Rig Veda with the help of genealogical records.

He establishes that Rig Veda was composed by sages living in Saraswati river valley between Saraswati and Ganga rivers (Haryana) who were patrons of the kings who ruled in this area. These patron kings were especially the Puru and particularly the Bharata branch of the Purus. Talageri equates the Vedic-Aryans to the Purus and the Iranians to the Anus a sibling branch of the Purus. Other sibling branches includes the Drahyus, the Yadus and the Turvasus.

History is a very potent subject. Politics can be, and very often is based on it. A nation which forgets, or falsifies, or willfully ignores, or glosses over the lessons of its history is a nation heading towards doom. And, conversely, when a nation is intended to be sent to its doom, a process of falsification of its history can be profitably launched.

Shrikant Talageri is one of those scholars who have come forward in recent years to challenge the colonial missionary model imposed on world history during the era of Western-Christian imperialism. In his book, The Aryan Invasion Theory: A Reappraisal, he had conclusively established that India was the original homeland of the Indo-European family of languages. In Aryan Invasion Theory and Indian Nationalism, he has confirmed equally emphatically that India was also the original homeland not only of the Indo-Aryans but also of the Indo-Iranians and the Indo-Europeans.

The location of the Original Homeland of the Indo-European family of language is the single most significant problem in the study of World History. This language family has members all across Europe and Asia. The question of the homeland of this diverse family has been hotly debated among linguists, historians, archaeologists and, especially in India, also among political writers of every brand.

In Rigveda and the Avesta: The Final Evidence Shrikant Talageri, claiming to present “the final evidence” on the Indo-European Homeland question, goes a long way indeed in disproving the Aryan Invasion Theory and establishing India as the land of origin of the migrations that spread the Indo-European language family over half of the Eurasian continent, from Bengal to Portugal and from Lanka to Norway. Thus his theory generally categorized under out of India (OIT) theory of origin of IE Family is firm and a strong contender to the well-established IE homeland theories.

Shri Talageri has written four books so far: The Rigveda: A Historical Analysis 2000; The Aryan Invasion Theory: A Reappraisal; The Rigveda and the Avesta: The Final Evidence; and Aryan Invasion Theory and Indian Nationalism.

Shri Talageri debunked the Aryan Invasion Theory and Aryan Migration Theory so completely and conclusively that there remains no iota of doubt about it. And he achieved this against all odds. He worked in a bank, his entire working career, which was his source of livelihood. He did his scholarship only in the spare time. Without the benefit of the resources of a University and without the recognition that the paraphernalia of the University system provides, Shri Talageri labored against all odds and against all academic hostility, slander and opposition.

By debunking the Aryan Invasion Theory, Shri Talageri has taken a major step in the decolonization of Indian mind. He is one of the foremost voices of decolonization of India. His name should be famous all over the world, as one of the most brilliant of scholars who helped debunk a fraud, but sadly the only way academic hegemons can try to counter his work is to ignore it. This Doctorate by Indus University is a humble step in establishing the rightful place of Shri Talageri in the world of scholarship.

Publications

1 – The Aryan Invasion Theory and Indian Nationalism
2 – The Rigveda: A Historical Analysis
3 – Rigveda and the Avesta: Final Evidence
4 – Genetics and the Aryan debate: “Early Indians” Tony Joseph’s Latest Assault

Shankar Sharan

Dr. Shankar Sharan is one of the greatest scholars of communism and comparative study of religions. With his books, articles and lectures he has been commenting upon some of the most important issues and problems that plague our time. He is concerned one of the foremost experts of Communism in India. His magnum opus, ‘Marxism and Indian History Writing’ is still considered one of the best books on the subject. Along with that he has written a dozen more books.

Publications

१ – भारतीय इतिहास दृष्टि और मार्क्सवादी लेखन
२ – मार्क्सवाद के खँडहर
३ – गाँधी के ब्रह्मचर्य प्रयोग
४ – जिहादी आतंकवाद

Sampadananda Mishra

Sampadananda Mishra is a Pondicherry-based Sanskrit scholar from Odisha. He is the director of Sri Aurobindo Foundation for Indian Culture. Through the Vande Mataram Library Trust, an open-source and volunteer-driven project, he plans to generate verified, authentic English translations of almost all important scriptures available in Sanskrit.This pioneering project would also lay the foundation stone of original Sanskrit works that would enhance the appreciation and cultivation of the Vedic knowledge. Mishra was awarded the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Award for Sanskrit in 2012 by Pratibha Patil, the then President of India. Mishra specializes in Sanskrit grammar.

Publications

1 – Sanskrit and the Evolution of Human Speech.
2 – Stotravali: A Book of Hymns and Prayers in Sanskrit.
3 – The Century of Life of Sri Aurobindo with original verses of Bhartrihari.
4 – Sri Aurobindo and Sanskrit.
5 – The wonder that is Sanskrit.
6 – Hasyamanjari: A book of humorous stories in Sanskrit.
7 – Chandovallari: A handbook of Sanskrit prosody.

Nithin Sridhar

Nithin Sridhar is an Author, Speaker, and Journalist based in Mysuru, India. Though trained as a civil engineer and has worked in the construction field, his passion for culture and philosophy made him take a career change into journalism. He is currently the Editor of IndiaFacts, an online portal focused on Indian history, culture and philosophy. He is also the Editor of Advaita Academy which is focussed on the dissemination of the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta. His first book “Musings On Hinduism” provided an overview of various aspects of Hindu philosophy and society. His latest book “Menstruation Across Cultures: A Historical Perspective” examines menstruation notions and practices prevalent in different cultures & religions from across the world. He regularly writes columns on issues ranging from politics and society to religion and philosophy.

Publications

1 – The Sabarimala Confusion – Menstruation Across Cultures: A Historical Perspective
2 – Sri Dakshinamurthy
3 – Samanya Dharma
4 – Candika: The Story of Goddess Durga

Vedveer Arya

Vedveer Arya is a civil servant and an officer of 1997 batch of Indian Defence Accounts Service (IDAS). Presently, he is working as Integrated Financial Advisor in Ministry of Defence, Government of India. He earned his master’s degree in Sanskrit from University of Delhi. He is the author of “The chronology of Ancient India: Victim of Concoctions and Distortions”, published in 2015.

Publications

1 – The Chronology of India: From Manu to Mahabharata
2 – The Chronology of India: From Mahabharata to Medieval Era – Vol II
3 – The Origin of the Christian Era: Fact or Fiction